Where have you run your iPod lead for head unit?

I'm going to be installing a dension igateway into my avant soon and I was wondering where other dension owners have run their cables? The obvious place is to have it coming out into the glovebox but I'm not sure it's the best place. I want to connect my iPhone and have it accessable, not for using in the car but for ensuring I don't forget to take it out of the car because I know I will forget to take it out if its not obvious.
The top choice would probably in the ashtray but not sure if that's going to be in the way, the cubby hole behind the handbrake is another option but not sure putting a hole in it is a good idea.
Any suggestions?

I had the same issue.. I need my phone to be accessible! but rather than go through the whole ashtray fitment rigmarole, I thought a more temporary measure would be good enough - just in case i decide on a different make mobile phone next year - my iPhone\iPod connection exits the dash at the drivers side knee panel and loops up to the iPhone sitting in a Brodit holder fitted to the R\H center vent.

I fitted an X car link into the glovebox, and i pull the cable out when i need it, the box of tricks sits nicely down behind the radio and climate control, i thought about doing a neat jack point in the centre console but time went against me.

mine comes out under the arm rest in the tray there that way the lead and phone are facing the correct way to use if you have it coming out the ashtray it's got to have a loop of cable or the phone up the wrong way.

If you take the glovebox out, there is a pre-cut circle for the cable to run through, you just need to punch through. That's what I did and my ipod lives on the top shelf of my glovebox. Very easy to do.

S4 Avant Brilliant Red. I wasn't going to mod the last car, certainly not modding this one. Apart from the interior LEDs. And exterior ones. And 'Supercharged' badges. And hill-hold assist. And a better exhaust system. Apart from that stuff, nothing.

Thanks for all the replies, the glovebox is the perfect place for an iPod that stays in all the time as I can just forget about it but for an iPhone it's not right. There are far too many compromises putting it elsewhere, I will either have to cut holes where I don't want to or the phone will just be in the way so I think the way for me is to get a seperate iPod in the glovebox and just leave it there.

Is there a cheap way of wiring an ipod to the RNSD? I don't mind if it doesnt recharge the ipod, but I hate the idea of spending over £100 to get it to work on a fancy-**** out of date Audi head unit whereas it was really easy on my **** old mazda with £60 head unit!

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